URI ATTACKERS CAME FROM MILITANT TRAINING CAMP IN POK

URI ATTACKERS CAME FROM MILITANT TRAINING CAMP IN POK

Four terrorists, who attacked an Army base in Uri, are suspected to have come from a militant training camp located at a place called Pir Chana Sai in Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir (PoK).

During interrogation, the two persons who were arrested for allegedly helping the four terrorists as ‘guides’ said they had started their journey from Pir Chana Sai in Gyarahbad in PoK where the militants have a training camp, official sources said.

The two — Faisal Hussain Awan and Ahsaan Khursheed — both residents of Muzaffarabad in PoK, were produced before a designated court in Jammu, which remanded them to NIA’s custody for 10 days.

They have since been brought to the national Capital where they would be interrogated by a joint team of officials of various security agencies besides being subjected to scientific tests.

During their preliminary interrogation, they have admitted to facilitating infiltration by a group of four JeM terrorists, who carried out the Uri attack on September 18. 

On being shown the photographs of the four terrorists killed in retaliatory action, accused Faisal Hussain Awan identified one of them as Hafeez Ahmed, a resident of village Dharbang, Muzaffarabad in PoK.

The two were arrested in a joint operation by the BSF and the Army at ‘Angoor Post’ at Gavalata village in Uri last Saturday when they were trying to infiltrate into India.

As both were residents of PoK, the army authorities interrogated them about whether they had any knowledge regarding the Uri attack in which four terrorists had stormed the army camp and killed 18 soldiers.

The duo initially said they had inadvertently crossed over into India but during sustained interrogation admitted that they had facilitated the infiltration by Uri attackers and also helped their interrogators identify one of the terrorists, the sources said.

(THE PIONEER)